Summarize and Synthesize

1. Read, Think & React

Paraphrase and respond to information
maya.pdf
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Focus:
  • Pull out important information that relates to key ideas and paraphrase it
  • Learn strategies for navigating challenging text, taking notes, and responding to the information
  • Monitor your understanding as you read

2. Beyond the Text

Move from facts to ideas
garana.pdf
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Focus:
  • Respond to the information with questions, connections, and inferences that expland their thinking
  • Synthesize the facts and draw conclusions to consider larger issues and ideas
  • Make their thinking visible and learn from each other as you share responses, questions, and ideas

3. Read to Get the Gist

Synthesize your thinking as you go
masks.pdf
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Focus:
  • Slow down and think about the text, separating, the ancillary details from the bigger ideas to get the gist
  • Summarize the big picture in a few words
  • Distinguish between text information and their thinking, to engage more fully with the text and better understand the material

4. Reread & Rethink

Rethink misconceptions and tie opinions to the text
hardwork.pdf
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Focus:
  • Understand the difference between facts and opinions
  • Revise thinking and opinions in the face of new evidence and information

5. Read, Write, & Reflect

Create a summary response to extend thinking
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Focus:
  • Learn how to write a summary response
  • Understand that it is a important to include your own thinking when you summarize and synthesize your reading
  • Build on and extend your knowledge of a topic to arrive at a new insight or an original thought
  • Include comments on your strategy use, as well as on the content and your reactions when writing a summary response